Welcome to Oikyotaan Online - our digital magazine

Starting 2002, BAWA has regularly published its annual literary magazine “Oikyotaan” (Symphony). This is a bi-lingual publication covering creations in either Bengali or English. The publication encourages talent from within the local community to be creative and write original articles, stories, poems, and travelogues or draw pictures. It nourishes individual artistic soul from within the community providing a creative platform.

In 2024, we launched Oikyotaan Online - in the digital platform. The idea is to enable wider publication and consumption as well as preservation of the contents.

Acknowledgement - Oikyotaan Online
BAWA wishes to thank following volunteers who have created Oikyotaan Online platform, as well as the inaugural edition of Oikyotaan Online in 2024. We thank you all for your contribution and endeavor to make this happen.

Oikyotaan Online Concept and Implementation: Deblina Sen and Supriya Guha
Oikyotaan Online Platform Development: Supriya Guha

Inaugural Oikyotaan Online Edition - 2024 Magazine (Print and Digital):
All Contributors
All Sponsors
Editor (English): Deblina Sen
Editor (Bengali): Subrata Bhattacharjee
Layout and Design: Samik Majumdar
Cover Drawing: Supratik Mukherjee
Supriya Guha
Koushik Tarafdar
Abhishek Ganguly


Disclaimer: Oyikotaan is published by the Bengali Association of Western Australia (BAWA). Oyikotaan is pleased to accept contributions from authors and thanks them for their time and effort. However, the opinions expressed in Oyikotaan do not reflect those of the editors or publisher (i.e. BAWA). The authors own exclusive copyright to their articles. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical, electronic, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. This magazine contains material (for example, the English Editorial or any other article referencing the R.G. Kar incident, in Oikyotaan 2024) that may be considered age inappropriate for young children or triggering for some. This includes, but is not limited to, themes of violence, discrimination, sexual content, and strong language. Reader discretion and parental guidance is advised. If you are sensitive to such topics, you may wish to consider this before proceeding.